text your US postal address
to (520) 200-2223 and get a text back with your

STATE & FEDERAL legislative rep phone numbers.

Next
week—May
29-June 2—Congress is in recess. Hopefully our MoCs
will schedule town halls, be present in their local offices, or hold
scheduled meetings with constituents. These town halls will be a
“referendum,” some say, on public outrage at the House vote on
Trumpcare. Let’s make sure they are! The Town Hall Project maintains
a list of town halls and other public events as these are announced:https://townhallproject.com/Ultraviolet offers a guide to recess
2017 resistance, with a particular emphasis on issues affecting women’s
health: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.weareultraviolet.com/images/20170522-UV-recess-toolkit-web-v3.pdf

Trump embarrassed the American people at
the NATO conference and then went on to call the Germans, one of our
strongest allies, evil. "Trump’s singling out of German
carmakers for contributing to the nation’s lopsided trade surplus follows
rebukes of Japan’sToyota
Motor Corp.and attacks
on America’s own automakers for shipping cars from Mexico. The rhetoric
overlooks that BMW
AG, Daimler AG andVolkswagen AGoperate some of their biggest factories
in the world in southern U.S. states, and the impact that putting a stop
to imports would have on the thousands of dealers who sell German
vehicles."https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-26/trump-blasts-german-carmakers-u-s-sales-and-threatens-barriersLet's call the White House and let trump know, we care about our
German allies and that many German car makers build their cars here and
American dealerships sell them providing jobs to Americans. Contact
the White House here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Last
year, the House developed the Climate Solutions Caucus, a bipartisan group
of Representatives who focus their efforts on policies related to the
environment and climate change.http://bit.ly/2qirVNVThe group is kept strictly bipartisan,
with an even number of Democrat and Republican members, and is continuing
to grow. However, it can still be a struggle getting Republican Members of
Congress to join. If we have a Republican Representative, let's encourage
them to join the Climate Solutions Caucus! In addition to calling them
directly, we can also edit and then send them Climate Parents' form
letter: http://bit.ly/2r4r7gI

Supplying
weapons to a country which continuously commits war crimes makes the U.S.
complicit in those violations of law http://bit.ly/2r5NsNxWe need Congress to block these deals
and prohibit the selling of weapons to human rights abusers. Let's call
our Senators and ask them to cosponsor and support Sen. Rand Paul's
S.J.Res. 42. We can also sign CREDO Action's petition: http://bit.ly/2s4x2By

The
Senate will soon be voting on the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017
(S. 951). The RAA will effectively politicize regulations, making it
easier for corporations to sidestep rules which have been put in place to
keep us safe. For those of us whose MoC will be hosting townhalls, let's make
sure we're asking about their stance on the RAA. The Indivisible Guide has
sample Townhall questions available, which we could also use when we call
our MoC's office: http://bit.ly/2r5Z8iw

Yesterday, Senator Bernie
Sanders introduced S1242 for a National $15 minimum wage: http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/25/news/economy/minimum-wage-bill-democrats/ The
bill must now clear the Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor
and Pensions (HELP). Members of this committee are: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/committees/SSHR
The chairman, Lamar Alexander, determines whether or not further action is
taken on this bill. The quest for a $15 minimum will be a long one.
We need to make our voices heard at every opportunity to keep the
momentum moving forward. Let's write to Chairman Lamar Alexander,
Committee on HELP, 428 Dirksen SOB, Washington DC 20510 and let him know
that we support S1242. (We can also call the HELP committee at202-224-5375)
If any of our own senators are on the committee we can call them as
well.

Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Ted
Yoho (R-FL) have sent a letter to the House Foreign Affairs committee
chairmain Ed Royce calling for a full committee review of last week's
Saudi Arms' deal. http://thehill.com/policy/defense/335193-lawmakers-demand-hearing-on-saudi-arms-sale Let's write to Ed Royce to let
him know that we support a full committee review: Chairman Ed Royce,
Foreign Affairs Committee, 2170 Rayburn HOB, Washington DC 20515.
(Committee phone number:202-225-5021)

Attorney General Jeff
Sessions did not disclose some meetings with Russians on his security
clearance:http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/sessions-security-clearance-doesnt-mention-russia-meetings.htmlThis is
the mission statement of the Department of Justice:“To enforce the law and defend
the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public
safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership
in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those
guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration
of justice for all Americans.” (https://www.justice.gov/about)Please take the time to let Sessions know why we do
not think he is positioned to uphold to mission of the DOJ: US Dept of
Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20530

We're less than four
weeks away from special elections for Congress in both the Georgia Sixth
and South Carolina Fifth Districts. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/2017/05/20/4dbc06e6-3d7e-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html?utm_term=.3bcd7ad5fabe)
These are BIG opportunities to send a message to Trump. We can put two
more votes in the House to block his plans to take health care coverage
from 23 million Americans, cut Social Security and take a sledgehammer to
the EPA so that he can cut taxes for his rich friends... and we can help
from wherever you are! We can sign up to make calls for to help Jon Ossoff
#FlipTheSixth at this link. We
can also sign up to text for Ossoff at this
link. We can sign up to help Archie Parnell turn out South
Carolina voters at
this link, and make texts for Archie here.

Sleeping
Giants' latest efforts to call out Google include e-mailing the SVP of
Thought Leadership at Fidelity Investments regarding the upcoming Google
shareholder meeting. Let's use Sleeping Giants' e-mail and Twitter
templates to urge the SVP, Jeanne Thompson, to help hold Google
accountable for still serving ads on Breitbart: http://bit.ly/2rpCbaY

Learning

Flabbergasted by the
widespread and aggressive denial of climate change? The blithe disregard
for expertise and relevant experience? The pervasive belief that the media
are lying? This article offers a trenchant and historically informed view
of how and why we ended up with an administration that rejects knowledge
and truth. Hint: it didn't happen overnight. http://www.publicbooks.org/how-conservatives-waged-a-war-on-expertise/

“Understanding and Resisting in Time for Recess”,
this week’s United States of Resistance from Rise Stronger:
https://www.risestronger.org/newsroom/understandingandresistingrecess

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